I\'m trying to use jQuery
to change the background color of a
From the jQuery website:
All animated properties should be animated to a single numeric value, except as noted below; most properties that are non-numeric cannot be animated using basic jQuery functionality. (For example, width, height, or left can be animated but background-color cannot be.)
Use jquery UI package to animate colors.
Ensure you include the CSS selector inside the jQuery that you wish to target.
$("bgcolor").click(function(){
Should be:
$("#bgcolor").click(function(){
Because you are targeting an ID.
You have several problems:
$("#bgcolor")
</div>
tag.background-color
.HTML:
<input type="button" id="bgcolor" value="Change color"/>
<div id="name">
Abder-Rahman
</div>
JS:
$("#bgcolor").click(function(){
$("#name").animate(
{backgroundColor: '#8B008B'},
"fast");}
);
Your code, fixed (and working with jQueryUI included): http://jsfiddle.net/andrewwhitaker/rAVj9/